Title
SAR Target Recognition via Supervised Discriminative Dictionary Learning and Sparse Representation of the SAR-HOG Feature.
Abstract
Automatic target recognition (ATR) in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images plays an important role in both national defense and civil applications. Although many methods have been proposed, SAR ATR is still very challenging due to the complex application environment. Feature extraction and classification are key points in SAR ATR. In this paper, we first design a novel feature, which is a histogram of oriented gradients (HOG)-like feature for SAR ATR (called SAR-HOG). Then, we propose a supervised discriminative dictionary learning (SDDL) method to learn a discriminative dictionary for SAR ATR and propose a strategy to simplify the optimization problem. Finally, we propose a SAR ATR classifier based on SDDL and sparse representation (called SDDLSR), in which both the reconstruction error and the classification error are considered. Extensive experiments are performed on the MSTAR database under standard operating conditions and extended operating conditions. The experimental results show that SAR-HOG can reliably capture the structures of targets in SAR images, and SDDL can further capture subtle differences among the different classes. By virtue of the SAR-HOG feature and SDDLSR, the proposed method achieves the state-of-the-art performance on MSTAR database. Especially for the extended operating conditions (EOC) scenario "Training 17 degrees - Testing 45 degrees", the proposed method improves remarkably with respect to the previous works.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.3390/rs8080683
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
Field
DocType
synthetic aperture radar,target recognition,dictionary learning,sparse representation,histogram of oriented gradients,MSTAR
Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Automatic target recognition,Computer science,Synthetic aperture radar,Sparse approximation,Feature extraction,Histogram of oriented gradients,Artificial intelligence,Classifier (linguistics),Discriminative model,Optimization problem
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
8
8
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shengli Song1375.63
Bin Xu213323.23
Jian Yang348364.80